Comments on: Driving Debt http://www.howwedrive.com/2008/10/10/driving-debt/ Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:08:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: D42 http://www.howwedrive.com/2008/10/10/driving-debt/#comment-1635 D42 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:17:46 +0000 http://www.howwedrive.com/?p=307#comment-1635 Back then, there was a nobility overall about the "American dream". That something is possible. Somehow it seems to me as an observer, that these things have become "frozen" and "fetishized". As if the audience is entranced. And I don't think this is coincidental. Back then, there was a nobility overall about the “American dream”. That something is possible.
Somehow it seems to me as an observer, that these things have become “frozen” and “fetishized”.
As if the audience is entranced. And I don’t think this is coincidental.

]]> By: Vagabondblogger http://www.howwedrive.com/2008/10/10/driving-debt/#comment-1463 Vagabondblogger Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:46:32 +0000 http://www.howwedrive.com/?p=307#comment-1463 Just today from Wired.com an interview with a real ad man about MadMen, the TV show. Here's a quote, which might mean more to some of us who are older, and could not get a car, house, etc, without a down payment, and the required income to pay: "Palmer: The failure for him is when the nobility of commerce goes away. Back then, it was noble to own things. When you saved up enough to get a car, it meant something. It was part of the machine of American progress." Just today from Wired.com an interview with a real ad man about MadMen, the TV show. Here’s a quote, which might mean more to some of us who are older, and could not get a car, house, etc, without a down payment, and the required income to pay:

“Palmer: The failure for him is when the nobility of commerce goes away. Back then, it was noble to own things. When you saved up enough to get a car, it meant something. It was part of the machine of American progress.”

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